Fines and fees collections are often used to fund local services, but Black and Latino or Hispanic communities disproportionately pay the price for these practices. Tonantzin Carmona provides six recommendations on how local government leaders can begin to reform their fines and fees policies.
As the COVID-19 pandemic triggered shutdowns in prominent sectors, many governments around the world distributed unprecedented fiscal support to keep their economies afloat. Using data from previous recessions, M. Ayhan Kose, Peter Nagle, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara assess whether government debt will now stabilize.
“Public and private leaders need to address several ongoing vulnerabilities in our supply chains instead of proposing Band-Aid solutions to get us through the holidays. We need durable strategies to avoid further economic volatility, respond to a worsening climate crisis, create better quality jobs and livelihoods and increase equity in access to those opportunities,” argue Annelies Goger and Joseph Kane in their recent op-ed.
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